Why the David S. Pumpkins Sketch from ‘Saturday Night Live’ is Objectively Awful

If you watched the episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Tom Hanks on October 22nd, (and honestly, why would you have?) you’ll no doubt by hip to the sketch that grabbed America by the imagination-balls: The Haunted Elevator.

The premise of the sketch is a couple enjoying a “haunted elevator” ride with a scary vignette appearing on every one of the 100 floors (100 Floors of FRIGHTS). Everything seems to be going as planned until the appearance of Tom Hanks as the funky MC, David S. Pumpkins.

Pumpkins is just a random confusing character with Mikey Day and Bobby Moynihan (of course) dancing opposite him in skeleton-hype man fashion. It’s all very silly, and totes random!

What would otherwise be a throwaway sketch which would likely get a comedy writer fired or burned at the stake has sparked a social media shitstorm resulting in memes and the David S. Pumpkins Halloween costume to sell out everywhere from SpiritHalloween.com to Amazon. Which is ironic because the “Seasonal Party Suit” costume was likely one of their lowest selling until this month. I wonder if SNLwill attempt to bring it back with David S. ChristmasTrees in the cringiest way possible, as they are apt to do literally always.

But why does everyone love it now? Every article explaining the phenomenon will tell you the same thing: It’s TOM HANKS, of course!

But if that were true, people would be flocking out to see his movies…and they ain’t. So what is it?

One thought on “Why the David S. Pumpkins Sketch from ‘Saturday Night Live’ is Objectively Awful”

I realize this is late, but thank you for this.
I’ve seen so many people say “If you didn’t think it was funny, you probably didn’t get the joke.”
We got the ‘joke.’
The joke that David S. Pumpkins doesn’t fit in because they ran out of ideas for the 100 floors of the haunted house.
It’s just not funny.